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Halifax County

Halifax County is home to more than 37,000 residents and is located in South Central Virginia. Our central location is within a days drive to more than two thirds of the United States population.

Protected by the nearby mountains, Halifax County enjoys four distinct seasons and rarely sees harsh weather extremes. Our average annual temperature is 57.8 degrees, with the January average at 36 degrees and the July average at 77 degrees.

Halifax County has 4 rivers that flow through the county including the Dan, Staunton, Banister and Hyco Rivers. Our county receives an average of 41.8 inches of precipitation and 9.8 inches of snow each year.

Halifax County, Virginia, is located in the Southern Piedmont Region of Virginia, contiguous to the State of North Carolina and a little over an hour away from Raleigh-Durham International Airport and the Research Triangle Park (RTP). The community is strategically located for transportation and distribution. The Port of Virginia facilities are approximately two and a half hours to the east.

Halifax County's own Riverstone Technology Park (RTP) will be open for business in 2004. Infrastructure improvements have been completed in the first quarter of 2004; Building One (Class "A" space for small information, technical manufacturing and biomedical companies) will open in January 2005; Building Two to be occupied by the Virginia Employment Commission's Customer Service Call Center will open in October 2004.
This development (located in a Technology Zone and the Virginia Enterprise Zone) is part of a long range effort to diversify the local economy in an attempt to cultivate niches within the growing fields of biotech, pharmaceutical, and other technology based fields. This community is surrounded by the already established cluster of major medical centers, some of which have affiliations with Halifax Regional Health Systems and the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center.

Halifax County is known for its aggressiveness and support given to attracting and assisting new and expanding industry with creating jobs and investments in the community.
This was evidenced by Halifax County becoming the first community to be certified by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1985 as being prepared for economic development as well as the filling of the Halifax County/South Boston Industrial Park. The industrial parks and many sites are located in a Virginia Enterprise Zone offering state and local incentives to businesses expanding and locating in the zone. Riverstone is an established Technology Zone. Other local incentives encouraging job growth and investment are the Halifax Opportunity Fund and the Commercial Stimulus Program as well as the low tax rates.

Manufacturing represents 35 percent of employment in the Halifax/South Boston labor market area including textiles, wood, furniture, electronics, metalworking, plastics, and pet food. Closings and layoffs of textiles, furniture, and metalworking industries have attributed to the high unemployment rate of 8.5 percent as of Decemeber, 2003. Many of these workers are available for employment or have received further training to prepare themselves to re-enter the workforce.